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Country United Kingdom Publication date 1978 Pages 558 Originally published 1978 Preceded by The Siege of Krishnapur Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 0-297-77445-X Page count 558 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres British Empire, Postcolonial literature Similar J G Farrell books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The singapore grip asian values and political theory
The Singapore Grip is a novel by J. G. Farrell. It was published in 1978 a year before his death.
Contents
In 2015, The Straits Times' Akshita Nanda selected The Singapore Grip as one of 10 classic Singapore novels. She wrote, "Neatly weaving in snappy, comic summaries of Singapore history as well as the commercial and cultural forces that shaped the trajectory of World War II in South-east Asia and China, The Singapore Grip is also a powerful cure for post-colonial malaise with its details of the British elite's snobbery towards people of Chinese, Indian, Malay, Eurasian and American descent."
Plot
The Singapore Grip is a satirical book about events following Japan's entry into the Second World War by invading South East Asia and swiftly occupying Singapore. The story centres on a British family who control one of the colony's leading trading companies. The title derives from a slang phrase describing a sexual technique sometimes used by prostitutes.